Mr. president, delegates,
the beginning of modern civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of wars But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the onto his bride Then the earth's children know the true expression of one love Then mother shall honeymoon in peace. Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the going up in vapors And propaganda spreading inna the papers not even superman save you with him cape cause Red-a a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem with razors And now the a strike war, don't be amazed 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the government inna falling out Only few men crawling out Run left him dem sprawling out, nearly dead! Medic haul him out And him two tranquilizer fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear from the last week Him find a new shoes Wife can't get no and lately she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the youth dem out Working hard not to let it all out Well it's not safe to go about A slaughterhouse from to water house She start to arouse she want a spouse She start go out, start a darker stout, guns come out! people funds run out Keep a last week and no one come out, bombs come out! Mi gas tank just run out, clatt! The tape just run out, weed run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out Nah out! 'Til the chalice bun out, Nah out! 'Til the malice bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to berlin Blazin' like a ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war wear jheri curl, in war No and pearl, in war Can't weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war Shot wi up yuh shirt, in war go lift up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go release sperms, in war must preserve, in war Fire burn, in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!
If you do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for If you cannot do other men have done What other have done, what other races have done Then you shall die.
See it deh know the innocent going up in And propaganda spreading inna the Sunday not superman coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And Babylon a gamble the dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a war, don't be amazed 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore sacrifice enough Dem blood sweat and tears run syrup Any day a revolution erupt, and the sky's over Kingston lighting up For the new generation rising up, of now a days weh dem sighting up And reasoning dem biding up, Searching for the sign and the is us, Searching for the truth all you is us, for the troops still behind is us, The almighty we recruit and we come from the We like roach building boot Weh just done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the fight for sign me up you tell-lie-vision can't blind me up Soldiers and dem wising up, realizing they're no more right than us Realizing no use fighting us Realizing their their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek talk nor up Cause the temper tantrum boiling up, And who the shots and nah bust none the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no rain nah from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the virgin bawl, of the church in war and researching war Practice and war Teaching and dem war Instigating and war Always alert in war man will jump out a swerving car Now and birds in war And the and nerds in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you die. You race of cowards, you of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do other men have done What other nations have done, what races have done Then you shall die.